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Contents: Major Marcus Reno: Misrepresented ‘Monster’ (Plains Indians had soundly whipped the 7th Cavalry and killed its ironic commander Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer. Someone had to take the blame. Hello, Reno); Baseball In The West (Alexander Cartwright brought the game west during the California Gold Rush, and diamonds in the rough spread like tumbleweeds across the post-Civil War frontier); Idaho Bill: No Jail Could Hold Him (The imaginative outlaw made his mark – for better or worse – through repeated jailbreaks and his claim to have survived the Mountain Meadows Massacre); The Colorado Huntress And Her Wildlife (When her husband sought gold in the Rockies, small but spunky Martha Maxwell followed him and found fame as a skilled naturalist and taxidermist); Murder At The Palais Royal (At this fancy Forth Worth saloon all the ingredients were present for lead to fly – two sporting men, a simmering feud, gambling protocol, alcohol and hot words) Departments – Editor’s Letter; Letters; Roundup (A Wild West article ropes a prestigious Wrangler Award, American Indian ballplayers (only one from Cleveland) fill the Top 10 list, an all-Wild West baseball team takes the field, and the Billy the Kid tintype is up for auction); Interview (John Koster stirred up a hornet’s nest by suggesting a soldier survived Custer’s Last Stand, and he’s sticking to his guns – which may or may not be loaded); Westerners (The man on the horse is a “Starr” desperado, if he doesn’t say so himself); Gunfighters And Lawmen (Time ran out for watchmaker Edward Frodsham, who cut a violent trail across the West); Pioneers And Settlers (What glory is there when one Medal of Honor recipient puts a shotgun to the belly of another Medal of Honor recipient and pulls the trigger?); Indian Life (Ute Chief Walker was among the frontier’s busiest horse rustlers and slave traders, and when the Mormons objected, he went to war); Western Enterprise (The federally funded military road John Mullan built from Walla Walla on the Columbia River to Fort Benton on the upper Missouri had its ups and downs); Guns Of The West (Though Western movies rarely depict it, the cleaning of one’s trusty gun was something every smart frontiersman did regularly); Art Of The West (Indianapolis’ Eiteljorg Museum holds a premier collection of American Indian and Western art); Ghost Towns (Prospector John Kemple happened across silver in the sandstone of southwest Utah Territory, and the town of Silver Reef was born); Collections (The Sharlot Hall Museum in Prescott, Ariz., centers on the old territorial Governor’s Mansion and the collected art and artifacts of none other than Sharlot Hall (1870-1943)); Reviews (Interesting books and movies about frontier women, as well as reviews of such new books as Edwin Sweeney’s From Cochise To Geronimo); Go West! (Labor strikes out at Bisbee’s ballpark)
Issue: June 2011
Condition: Very Good